Female fashions in Singapore

1962 - Changing Women's Fashions In Singapore: Many of the younger women in Singapore like to dress in the Western style. Others compromise by wearing the shong-sam, a tight form fitting dress with a split side up to the thigh on both sides. Older women keep to the Chinese tunic and trousers like this woman. The child is dressed in normal Western manner. Will Singapore get independence in 1957? Another British Possession On The Threshold Of A New Era: Merdeka (independence for Singapore) may come this year with the granting of a new Constitution of internal independence obtained by Lim Yew Hock, Chief Minister of the Colony, founded by Sir Stamford Raffles on a march in 1-19 for the then East India Company. The plan would give a Malayan representative a balancing vote between British and Singapore representatives in the Council, and Britain's control on internal affairs would cease. Singapore's main threat is that her 77% Chinese population whose allegiance is still in doubt, particularly after recent riots fostered by the Communists in China. Authorities fear that if Merdeka comes and Britain withdraws her forces, up-country bandits would take over at gunpoint. Already it is known that 100 Secret Societies operate in the Colony, extorting protection money. It is these elements which could easily come to the fore in troublous times. In Sanskrit Singapura means Lion City. British capital, blood and sweat created a prosperous city and colony with a waterfront as imposing as that of any world city, with piers, warehouses, skyscraper office blocks and a breakwater to protect the wonderful natural harbour. This is one of a series of pictures taken by a staff cameraman visiting the colony, and shows something of life there today. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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